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The low profile Terry Goddard has kept since becoming a candidate for governor came to an end as the Democratic attorney general publicly announced his third gubernatorial campaign.
Speaking in front of the Attorney General's Office on April 5, Goddard said the state should ease its fiscal woes by ending billions of dollars in exemptions and loopholes in Arizona's sales tax.

As the election season heats up, we profile the four main contenders who will battle it out for the Republican nomination for governor of Arizona.
Each candidate provided their position on: taxes, the state budget, education, illegal immigration and religion.

If Jan Brewer and Dean Martin are the politicians with proven track records and 'Buz' Mills is the guy who brings a lifetime of private sector experience to the race, John Munger is the candidate who does both.

Since Jan Brewer kicked off her campaign in November, her mantra has been "tough times call for a tough leader," and that tough leader, of course, is her. The governor and her campaign have insisted that she inherited a serious budget problem created by her predecessor, Janet Napolitano, but that Brewer is the one working to fix it.

Much like Cassandra of Greek mythology, who was blessed by the gods with power to see the future but cursed so that no one would believe her prognostications, Dean Martin, who has served as state treasurer since 2007, saw Arizona's fiscal crisis on the horizon.

Gov. Jan Brewer's campaign launched an online offensive against state Treasurer Dean Martin aimed at undercutting his persona as the fiscally conservative nemesis of former Gov. Janet Napolitano.
Martin, meanwhile, said the series of attacks was an attempt to derail his frontrunner status.